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authorDenton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>2019-12-04 13:25:06 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-12-05 06:06:18 -0800
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tree98a75cac402c9a059823b6bf19fd75aa0c7b6f78 /Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
parent700e006c5d69990fc1167355e9fa7a55e9166581 (diff)
downloadgit-945dc55dda595a3e5449017797cb90599ed9ecb5.tar.gz
format-patch: teach --no-base
If `format.useAutoBase = true`, there was no way to override this from the command-line. Teach the `--no-base` option in format-patch to override `format.useAutoBase`. Helped-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index 00bdf9b125..0d4f8951bb 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -333,11 +333,12 @@ you can use `--suffix=-patch` to get `0001-description-of-my-change-patch`.
Output an all-zero hash in each patch's From header instead
of the hash of the commit.
---base=<commit>::
+--[no-]base[=<commit>]::
Record the base tree information to identify the state the
patch series applies to. See the BASE TREE INFORMATION section
below for details. If <commit> is "auto", a base commit is
- automatically chosen.
+ automatically chosen. The `--no-base` option overrides a
+ `format.useAutoBase` configuration.
--root::
Treat the revision argument as a <revision range>, even if it